Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,297,997"
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’sWar On Iraq 4,218
icasualties.org/oif/
The War And Occupation Of Iraq Costs
$583,453,190,447
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The Dead Were Piled on Top of Each Other Outside’
By Sami Abdel-Shafi in Gaza city
I am safe, and yet I feel like a walking dead person. Everything around me shows it. It is hard to write something of any coherence while exposed to cold winter air and to the smell that lingers after the detonation of Israeli bombs.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21549.htm
Christmas In Gaza : No More Room In The Morgue.
‘Little Baghdad’ in Gaza – Bombs, Fear and Rage
By Amira Hass, Haaretz Correspondent
Relatives search among the bodies and the wounded in order to bring the dead quickly to burial. A mother whose three school-age children were killed, and are piled one on top of the other in the morgue, screams and then cries, screams again and then is silent.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21551.htm
Hamas Calls for Third Intifada
By Al Jazeera
In an interview on Al Jazeera, Meshaal said: “We called for a military intifada against the enemy. Resistance will continue through suicide missions.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21548.htm
UN Blasts Israel Over Gaza Massacre
Video By Russia Today
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www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21550.htm
Gaza: The Untold Story
By Ramzy Baroud
The fact is that there is more to the Gaza Strip than 1.5 million hungry Palestinians, who are supposedly paying the price for Hamas’s militancy, or Israel’s ‘collective punishment’ whichever way the media decide to brand the problem.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21552.htm
How Can Anyone Believe There is ‘Progress’ in The Middle East?
By Robert Fisk
Let’s kick off with the man who is not going to change the Middle East, Barack Obama, who last week, with infinite predictability, became Time’s “person of the year”. But buried in a long and immensely tedious interview inside the magazine, Obama devotes just one sentence to the Arab-Israeli conflict: “And seeing if we can build on some of the progress, at least in conversation, that’s been made around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be a priority.”
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21558.htm
Israeli Conscientious Objectors, Shministim
Support Israel’s young conscientious objectors.
2 Minute Video
Shministim say why they refuse to serve in an army that occupies the Palestinians.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21553.htm
America Needs Period of Pain
By ERIC MARGOLIS
Wall Street’s big money con men, hedge fund Houdinis, and casino capitalists made a staggering $33.3 US billion in bonuses in 2007 alone by shady financial engineering and hawking fraudulent securities. Yet they have so far escaped prosecution. They get to keep their swag and $30-million South Hampton beach houses.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21557.htm
The Federal Reserve Abolition Act
By Stephen Lendman
It worried Thomas Jefferson enough to call banking institutions “more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies” at a much simpler time in our history. The right to create and control money belongs to the people through their elected representatives. For the past 95 years, powerful bankers accountable to no one have had it. They effectively run the country (and own it), and unless We the People change things, we’ll continue to be victimized by economic tyranny and the eventual political kind that’s coming.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21556.htm
Chávez: Capitalists Have Manipulated the Message of Christ to Exploit the Poor
By Venezolana de Televisión
“The Kingdom of Heaven is not a kingdom or life in the clouds. Either it exists here or else it exists nowhere,” President Chávez issued a wake-up call during the last Sunday program of 2008. “
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21554.htm
The Danger of Right-Wing Populism
By Shamus Cooke
When capitalism does enter crisis, the political parties subservient to corporate interests evolve accordingly. This is why both the Democrats and Republicans have been veering to the right for decades; it represents the deterioration of American capitalism’s global position, which is related to the inability of US corporations to maintain their past rates of profit.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21555.htm
Gaza toll nears 300 amid new raids:
Palestinian medics say that more than 280 people have been killed and more than 600 injured as Israel’s bombing of the impoverished Gaza Strip continued for a second day.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/
2008/12/2008122871652501306.html
In Pictures:
Slaughter In Gaza –
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U.N. Security Council (Wimps Out) calls for end to Gaza violence:
“The members called on the parties to stop immediately all military activities.
www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE4BR0H920081228
Treachery?
PA ‘ready’ to take Gaza if Hamas ousted:
Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah said Saturday that they were prepared to assume control over the Gaza Strip if Israel succeeds in overthrowing the Hamas government.
tinyurl.com/7odxwk
Egypt accused of ‘deceiving’ Hamas:
Egypt “collaborated” with Israel in its Gaza attack and lulled Hamas into thinking the Israel Defense Forces would not attack Gaza, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi reported Sunday.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3645437,00.html
Britain and US refuse to demand end to Israeli airstrikes on Gaza:
Britain and the United States were on a collision course with their European allies last night after refusing to call for an end to Israeli airstrikes on Hamas targets in Gaza.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
world/middle_east/article5404545.ece
Israeli warplanes fly low over south Lebanon:
Israeli warplanes on Sunday flew low over south Lebanon, already the target of an overnight reconnaissance flight, a Lebanese security official said.
tinyurl.com/9qqmqj
What?: White House Puts Onus on Hamas to End Escalation of Violence:
”If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that,” Mr. Obama said in July. “And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.”
www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/world/middleeast/28diplo.html
Gaza carnage Obama’s litmus test:
The Israeli bombardment of Gaza Saturday left at least 227 dead and 800 wounded, making it the biggest such atrocity in 60 years of Israel-Palestine conflict.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=79704§ionid=351020202
Pelosi: US must stand strongly with Israel:
Nancy Pelosi issued a statement concerning the Israeli operation in Gaza in which she wrote that “When Israel is attacked, the United States must continue to stand strongly with its friend and democratic ally.”
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3645321,00.html
Can there be any doubt who the real terrorists are?:
US definition fits perfectly.
www.redress.cc/palestine/slittlewood20081228
Abdullah, Bush talk amid Gaza slaughter:
Saudi King Abdullah has spoken to US President George W. Bush urging him to intervene to end Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip.
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=79714§ionid=351020205
Chavez shocked by US’ Gaza reaction:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has questioned the United States’ reaction to Israeli attacks on Gaza, calling Washington’s response ‘shocking.’
www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=79720§ionid=351020202
Iranian official: Israeli offensive in Gaza similar to Hitler’s actions:
“The Zionists are repeating the same thing Hitler did during World War II, attacking innocent people in a barbaric way
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3645696,00.html
Iran says all Muslims should defend Palestinians against Israeli Gaza raids:
“All Palestinian combatants and all the Islamic world’s pious people are obliged to defend the defenceless women, children and people in Gaza in any way possible. Whoever is killed in this legitimate defense is considered a martyr,” state television quoted Khamenei as saying in a statement.
www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-24/0812285084164001.htm
Iran Sending Another Ship to Gaza:
Iran’s Red Crescent medical service said it would send aid to Gaza in the wake of Israel’s campaign in Gaza. A ship left Iran’s port of Bandar Abbas Saturday night and will reach Gaza in 12 days, a statement by an organization official said.
www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/158152
Israel Bars Credible Observers from Gaza:
Thalif Deen Interviews U.N. Human Rights Expert RICHARD FALK
www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45232
Across Mideast, thousands protest Israeli assault:
The prime minister of Turkey, one of the few Muslim countries to have relations with Israel, called the air assault a “crime against humanity.”
tinyurl.com/92ovff
1,500 people protest outside Israeli embassy in London:
Police were forced to call in reinforcements after protesters tore down barriers holding them back and hurled projectiles in the direction of the diplomatic mission.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050658.html
Pakistan: 36 dead in suicide attack:
The massive blast destroyed a school in the town of Buner on the edge of the restive Swat valley, where voters were casting ballots in a parliamentary by-election, and caused the collapse of a nearby market, police said.
www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/
0,22049,24851800-5006003,00.html
U.S. Considers New Covert Push Within Pakistan:
President Bush’s senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency and the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
tinyurl.com/7l7kmj
India’s double standards:
While India blames Pakistan for inaction after Mumbai’s terror attacks, it turns a blind eye to a dangerous terror organisation
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/
2008/dec/28/india-mumbai-terror-attacks
14 Children killed in Afghan attack:
Sixteen people, mostly children, have been killed after a suicide car bomber attacked a district government office in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province, Nato forces say.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/
12/20081228163049526710.html
Two More Canadian Occupation Focre Soldiers Killed In Afghanistan:
Just hours before the body of Private Michael Freeman was loaded onto a military aircraft Saturday for the journey home, a roadside bomb in Afghanistan killed two more Canadian soldiers, along with a local police officer and interpreter.
www.citynews.ca/news/news_30467.aspx
As Taliban nears Kabul, shadow gov’t takes hold:
The Taliban has long operated its own shadow government in the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan, but its power is now spreading north to the doorstep of Kabul, according to Associated Press interviews with a dozen government officials, analysts, Taliban commanders and Afghan villagers.
tinyurl.com/8krzsr
28 killed by bombs in Iraq:
The first was at a bus station in a Shi’ite district in the Iraqi capital. The second attack happened as soldiers were trying to defuse a roadside bomb.
tinyurl.com/aynxge
Turkish jets bomb “PKK targets” in N.Iraq:
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in the Hakurke region of northern Iraq were hit on Saturday night and several other targets near the Iraqi-Turkish border were bombed on Sunday afternoon, the sources said.
www.focus-fen.net/?id=n164775
Internment And Interrogation Of 13-Year-Old Canadian Teen At Guantanamo Raises Ethical Issues:
His interrogators at the notorious camp have used snarling dogs against him. He was also placed in “stress positions,” upended and used as a human mop to clean the floor. The U.S. forces were convinced he had thrown a grenade that killed an American soldier.
tinyurl.com/9p6bhs
25% of Retailers May Go Bankrupt:
Analysts estimate that from about 10% to 26% of all retailers are in financial distress and in danger of filing for Chapter 11. AlixPartners LLP, a Michigan-based turnaround consulting firm, estimates that 25.8% of 182 large retailers it tracks are at significant risk of filing for bankruptcy or facing financial distress in 2009 or 2010.
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